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Vanessa Redgrave (Julia) stars as Fania Fenelon, a Jewish cabaret singer in Paris during the Nazi invasion. Fania and thousands of other Jewish and political prisoners are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She and a group of other classical musicians are spared from death in exchange for performing music for their captors, headed by SS camp matron Shirley Knight (The Rain People). They are also ordered to play for thousands being herded to the gas chambers - a "humane" means of easing the condemned into the next world. Playing For Time was adapted for television by Arthur Miller (Death Of A Salesman) and directed by Daniel Mann (The Ross Tattoo).
Dans l´enfer des camps de concentration, la détermination à survivre d'une femme au courage extraordinaire. L´histoire vraie de Fania Fénélon, adaptée par Arthur Miller. Au camp de femmes d´Auschwitz-Birkenau, un orchestre exclusivement féminin jouait à chaque arrivée de déportés, à chaque départ de commandos, et donnait des aubades aux SS. Le film de Daniel Mann retrace avec justesse ce témoignage terrible de l´horreur nazie.
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